Family of Jean Bourg & Marguerite Martin

Jean Bourg was born
Abt. 1646 at Port Royal, Acadia, and died Bet. 1693 - 1698 at Port Royal,
Acadia.

Wife Marguerite Martin was born Abt. 1644 at Port Royal, Acadia,
and died 24 April 1707 at Port Royal, Acadia.
Burial was 25 April 1707 at St. Jean Baptiste, Port Royal. They were married Abt. 1667 at Port Royal,
Acadia.

- 1752 Ile
St. Jean census (Port Lajoie, Riviere du Ouest): Jean Bourg, ploughman, native
of l'Acadie, aged 69 years. He has been fifteen months in the country. Married
to Francoise Aucoin, native of l'Acadie, aged 64 years. They have four children - one son and three
daughters: Francois Bourge, aged 20 years; Francoise, aged 28 years; Anne, aged
26 years; Marie, aged 23 years. They
have in live stock, four cows, one calf, one sow, four pigs, and eight fowls or
chickens. The land upon which they are
settled is situated on the south side of said Riviere du Ouest and was given
them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. They have made a clearing upon which
they have sown three bushels of grain.

- 1752 Ile
St. Jean census (Rivière des Blonds): Louis Bourg, ploughman, native of Port Royal, in l'Acadie, aged 65
years, he has been 22 months in the country. Married to Cecille Michel, native
of l'Acadie, aged 58 years. They have
seven children, three sons and four daughters: Eustache, aged 30 years; Louis,
aged 22 years; Charles, aged 15 years; Marguerite, aged 25 years; Elizabeth,
aged 24 years; Marie Magdelaine, aged 19 years; Anne Joseph, aged 8 years. In live stock, they have two oxen, four
cows, one calf, four pigs, and ten fowls.
The land upon which they are settled is situated on the east bank of the
said river. It was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. They
have made a clearing on it for the sowing of four bushels of wheat.

- 23 January
1759: Cecile Michel widow and daughter Anne Josephe disembarked at St. Malo
from one of the ‘Five Ships’. They
lived in Pleudihen 1759-1772.